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Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School - Tender for Cleaning Services

THE LITMUS PARTNERSHIP LTD

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

09 Dec 2016 at 17:26

Award Notice
Tender

18 Nov 2016 at 20:15

Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The procurement process involves Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School in Barnet, North London, which seeks a contractor for cleaning services through a selective procurement method. This tender, titled "Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School - Tender for Cleaning Services," is classified under office, school, and office equipment cleaning services. The tender period closed on 24 March 2016 and has a value of £345,000, with the contract period set to start on 1 August 2016 and last until 31 July 2019. The procurement is managed by The Litmus Partnership Ltd, which serves as the contracting authority.

This tender presents lucrative opportunities for businesses in the cleaning services sector, particularly those capable of delivering high standards and innovative solutions that align with the school’s values of maintaining a clean and pleasant environment for students and staff. Businesses with experience in managing substantial cleaning operations and those that can demonstrate efficiency, new cleaning methods, and compliance with BICSc standards may find themselves well-suited to compete for this contract. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are encouraged to apply, as the contracting authority is open to engaging with diverse service providers.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School - Tender for Cleaning Services

Notice Description

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School in Barnet, North London is a very successful 11-18 girls' comprehensive school and converter academy. The School is proud to be 1 of the oldest state girls' schools in the country (established 1888). The history and tradition enriches school life, as does the diversity of the local community we serve. We have high standards and high expectations and we aim to help each and every student to succeed. The school aims to develop confident, independent, flexible, self-disciplined and considerate young women. The girls have opportunities in and beyond the classroom to develop their academic, sporting, creative and leadership qualities. Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School is a vibrant and exciting learning community of which all are proud to be a part. The tender project is seeking to appoint a contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for the school. The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff. The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide a School that is fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the Tender Specification. It should be noted that the successful contractor will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation, new equipment and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term. At present 24 cleaning operatives are employed to work approximately 1 100 hours per month, predominantly early mornings and late afternoons, 1 manager is available for 4 hours during the day, Monday to Friday. There are also some weekend cleaning requirements (2 hours per day on Saturday and Sunday). The School are open to new suggestions around the timings of the cleaning staff provision compared to the current provision. The current incumbent is Servest. There may be incumbent members of cleaning staff who are members of the LGPS, however, the current incumbent was unable to provide this information. The value of the current contract: 138 000 GBP per annum (115 000 GBP excluding VAT). Additional information: Interest in the pre-qualification process should be expressed via email only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk, clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number. The pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/queen_elizabeths_girls_school__cleaning The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 24.3.2016 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk, by the above closing date and time. Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk, by the above closing date and time. It will be the Tenderer's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this OJEU notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time. The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity. The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-590bb681-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0252ac17-6df7-4963-bc94-6b44d1623c30
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Restricted procedure
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

CPV Codes

90919000 - Office, school and office equipment cleaning services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£345,000 £100K-£500K
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£373,716 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
9 Dec 20169 years ago
Submission Deadline
24 Mar 2016Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
20 Jun 20169 years ago
Contract Period
31 Jul 2016 - 31 Jul 2021 Over 5 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
THE LITMUS PARTNERSHIP LTD
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
BARNET
Postcode
EN5 5RR
Post Town
Enfield
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI71 Barnet
Delivery Location
TLI London
Local Authority
Barnet
Electoral Ward
Barnet Vale
Westminster Constituency
Chipping Barnet

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

BIRKIN CLEANING SERVICES

Further Information

Notice Documents

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